Want to keep up with what everyone’s talking about on alternative social media sites like Bluesky and Mastodon, but don’t have time to constantly scroll through their respective apps? A newly launched link aggregation service called Sill may be able to help. The service is similar to the older startup Nuzzel, which was ultimately acquired by Twitter as part of its deal for Scroll in 2021, then integrated into Twitter’s app. Popular with news junkies, Nuzzel helped users keep track of what everyone on Twitter was talking about, reading, and resharing that day. The feature lives on inside of Elon…
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Rocket Lab set a new speed record for launch turnaround time, successfully executing two Electron missions in 24 hours. The company added in a statement that this is also the first time any launch operator has completed a mission from each hemisphere within that time frame. Rocket Lab, which was founded in New Zealand, maintains a launch pad there and at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. The company has cited its ability to launch from pads in the U.S. and New Zealand as a competitive advantage; when the Virginia pad became operational in 2022, Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck said…
Signaling strong investor confidence in the platform’s potential to revolutionize business commerce. The funding will enable Volta to enhance its technology and expand its market reach, positioning it as a key player in the evolving landscape of B2B e-commerce. Volta, a new startup with a team split between two headquarters in Milan and Paris, has secured a €6 million pre-seed round ($6.3 million) to develop a new vertical software-as-a-service platform focused on B2B sales. In more practical terms, the Volta team pitches its product as an equivalent to Shopify but focused on B2B transactions. While Shopify, the e-commerce giant that…
This funding will enable the company to enhance its platform, providing medical writers with advanced tools and resources to efficiently manage the increasing volume of documentation required for emerging treatments. By streamlining the writing process, Biolevate aims to improve the quality and speed of regulatory submissions in the pharmaceutical industry. Writing the documentation that must go alongside the development of new drugs is a highly labor-intensive process: not much software is used, and there’s a shortage of expert writers. Paris-based Biolevate helps medical writers go faster with a platform that uses NLP and visual document reading to assist in writing.…
This significant investment aims to bolster the semiconductor supply chain in the United States, enhancing both economic growth and national security. By increasing domestic production capabilities, the initiative seeks to reduce reliance on foreign manufacturers and ensure a more resilient technology sector.The U.S. Department of Commerce confirmed on Tuesday it has awarded $7.865 billion to chip giant Intel under the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, a federal statute signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022 to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing. The funding will go toward manufacturing and advanced packaging (techniques to assemble and integrate multiple semiconductor chips into…
Google has announced it’s making more changes to how it displays search results in the European Union in response to continued complaints that it’s failing to comply with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). This will include what it bills as a “short test” of plain “blue link” style search results for hotel queries in three EU markets (Belgium, Estonia, and Germany), which will be akin — the company suggests — to how its search engine originally displayed results. The EU’s flagship market contestability reform carries hefty penalties for noncompliance of up to 10% of global annual turnover (or more…
The regulations will require riders to park their e-bikes in designated areas only, aiming to create a more organized and safer environment for both cyclists and pedestrians. Authorities hope that these changes will improve the overall flow of traffic and enhance the city’s streetscape London is putting the brakes on the mess of electric bikes that litter the streets of the city. Today, the local transportation authority, Transport for London (TfL), announced a new enforcement policy that will restrict parking for the tens of thousands of e-bikes rented on demand from companies like Lime, Human Forest, and Dott. The news…
Cardless is poised to revolutionize the credit card industry. With this significant funding, the company aims to enhance customer experiences by offering unique rewards and benefits tailored to individual preferences and lifestyles. More than a quarter of all U.S. residents use co-branded credit cards to get discounts and other extras from brands they use regularly. But not all is rosy in the world of loyalty commerce. Major brands like Uber, Starbucks, and Walmart have all pulled back from such projects over the years after failing to see the returns they were expecting. Now, tapping into the innovations of embedded finance,…
There is immense power in being in control of your own data. As ownership and governance of apps and online services consolidate, it’s understandable if you want to consider your options when it comes to where you store your private data and records of your everyday activities. Fortunately, not every service out there is trying to monetize your personal data, and many offerings are just as good (if not often better) as their commercial or ad-supported rivals. Take a minute to think about what you’d want to leave behind. Big Tech giants that hoard your data? Subscription services? Invasive ad…
It’s not exactly a secret that Apple has explored the possibility of building a television. Before his death in 2011, co-founder Steve Jobs famously told biographer Walter Isaacson that he’d “finally cracked it,” but no full-fledged Apple TV (as opposed to the Apple TV set-top box) has emerged in the years since. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple went as far as building full-scale prototypes with a large display that could also serve as a touchscreen Mac or iPad. But Apple eventually halted the project after examining the TV market and deciding not to compete in a low-margin business where…
